Executive Summary

This report explores differences in the self-reported
experiences of different groups of people based on the 2015/16
Scottish Inpatient Experience Survey.

Over
17,000 people took part in the survey which
included a range of questions covering topics such as accident and
emergency, care and treatment, staff, leaving hospital and care and
support at home. It also included a number of "About you"
questions, which provides information about the personal
characteristics of respondents.

The survey results show that overall, people reported a
similarly positive experience to the previous survey, with
'overall' ratings improving or staying the same for all but two
sections of the survey (leaving hospital and care and support
services after leaving hospital).

Key findings

Of the characteristics analysed,
self-reported general health, those with
pre-existinghealth conditions, and
age are most often associated with
differences in reported care experience, being
significant for over
80 per cent of the 80 questions analysed (Figure
1).

People reporting
fair or
poorhealth status were significantly more
negative than those reporting
good health

People with certain
pre-existing health conditions were
significantly more
negative

Olderpeople were significantly more
positive

Males were significantly more
positive

People who were
emergency admissions were significantly more
negative than those who had planned
admissions

Other, General and Community hospitals were
significantly more
positive where as
Large General hospitals were significantly more
negative than teaching hospitals

People who live in
SIMD
4 or
SIMD 5
(least deprived) areas of Scotland were significantly
more
negative than those living in
SIMD 1
(most deprived)

Figure 1: Number of questions affected by various
characteristics - all survey questions